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Nottingham Forest must "respect" QPR and retain their focus, if they want to avoid a repeat of their slip-up against Preston, warns Jack Colback.

The midfielder worked under Rangers boss Steve McClaren at Newcastle and is not surprised to have seen him revive the fortunes of the London club, who will hope to take a step closer to the promotion race, if they can take three points at the City Ground.

Colback has complete faith and confidence in Forest’s ability to go toe-to-toe with any side in the Championship.

But he believes that their attitude will be every bit as important as their quality.

“Another home game and another opportunity to win. But again, like the Preston game, if we are not bang on it, we know what we will get. We will be undone,” said Colback.

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“We are full of confidence, we are going into every game with a belief we can win.

“We are up there on merit and could be a bit higher in the table. But this league is a very tough league.

“We saw that with Preston last weekend. They came to the City Ground and were solid and hard to break down, before getting a scrappy goal.

“Every game is tough and you have to be concentrated 100 percent in every game, if you do not want to come unstuck. But we are doing allright.”

Nottingham Forest manager Aitor Karanka at Pride Park (Image: PA)

Colback says Forest are happy with their progress so far – but not entirely satisfied with their league position.

“We feel like we are in a half-decent position but are not overly happy, because we feel like we could be higher up the table,” he said. “But it is swings and roundabouts. There have been games we might have nicked, but didn’t, that we might nick later in the season, in similar circumstances.

“You do not get anything cheaply in this league. Even the teams above us are falling short in certain games.